The Doctor was always a male character; it was an essential and foundational part of who the character was and the story of Doctor Who followed certain
patterns because of this. Now, because they have fundamentally altered the
character it is no longer Doctor Who as we knew it. It will become something... different. It
can never be what it was even if after this iteration they go back to a male
character. I look at it this way: For a character to have genuine
value, that character has to have a few consistent core characteristics. When those
core characteristics are fundamentally changed, the character is irrevocably
changed. So all of this talk about the Doctor being a man or a woman changes
the essence of the character. What was once reliable and understood now becomes
unrecognizable and distracting. Granted there are revelations and secrets
revealed over the course of a character’s story arc that al…

I thought I’d share a little story with you considering I just
got another sunburn despite my best efforts with sunscreen. Okay, so for most of you, the term Hell’s Itch doesn’t mean
a damned thing. For others, they nod their head silently and recall all too
well the most agonizing pain they ever experienced. I’ll explain. When people get sunburned it hurts, then it itches a little,
the skin starts to peel, it looks freaky and then heals and life goes on its
merry way. But for a very select few of us, it’s not that simple. See after we
get a sunburn, and it hurts, it starts to itch a little, then a little more, then
a lot more, and then… we are dragged down a path of nightmarishly agonizing
skin torture that is absolutely hellish in every way. Have you ever had an itch and deliberately didn’t scratch it
to see if it would go away? It didn’t right. You had to scratch it after it got
to be unbearable. Then the ordeal was over. Well, wit…

Here's a great article by Geoffrey Morrison about an old Battleship. I love ships, but there's something slightly sad about this one. It's permanently landlocked. You'll see in the picture gallery that it will never sail again. There's something so confining about that. But the pictures are great.

(picture taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mikasa)
Enjoy.